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# Podcast: Uncertainty for "Dreamers" But Also Others In Diverse NW Iowa Community
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/podcast-uncertainty-for-dreamers-but-also-others-in-diverse-nw-iowa-community/
- Published: 2017-11-21T10:00:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:30:39.000Z
- Description: One of Iowa's most diverse communities deals up-front with U.S. immigration issues. This podcast takes us to Storm Lake, Iowa, as part of a series called "The Politics of Fear: What are we so afraid of?"
- Author: Madeleine McCormick
- Tags: Meat industry, Business & Consumer Affairs, iowawatch, Buena Vista University, Charles Grassley, cultural diversity, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Dick Durbin, DREAM Act of 2017, DREAMERS, immigration policy, Lindsey Graham, meat packing industry, Rep. Steve King, Storm Lake Iowa, Tyson Foods, undocumented immigrants, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

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This is the first of a three-part podcast series titled “The Politics of Fear: What are we so afraid of?”

This episode explores the rhetoric of fear connected to U.S. immigration policies. It includes interviews with police officers, lawyers, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, and “Dreamers” to flesh out this topic.

“Dreamers” are young people from other countries who were brought into the United States at an early age without documentation but since have been educated in U.S. schools and have consider this country and its culture their home.

Read more about the proposed federal Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2017 [here ](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1615?ref=investigatemidwest.org)and a Republican proposal from September 2017 [here](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/25/dreamers-republican-new-bill-243100?ref=investigatemidwest.org).

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Madeleine McCormick is an award-winning, radio news storyteller, and fourth-year digital media major at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa.